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Indonesiens Abu Bakar Bashir soll entlassen werden
January 5, 2021 - January 8, 2021 -
Indonesiens Top Terrorist, Abu Bakar Bashir, wird aus dem Gefängnis am Freitag, 8. Januar, entlassen werden. Bashir war der mutmassliche Drahtzieher hinter dem tödlichsten Terror-Angriff in Indonesien, die Bombenangriffe von 2002 auf Nachtklubs in Bali mit 202 Toten.
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The 82-year-old radical cleric has been in jail since his arrest in 2009. Bashir, a key figure in Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was previously jailed over the Bali bombings but released on appeal.
In 2011, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for funding a training camp for terrorists in Indonesia’s province of Acheh. Bashir’s time was cut due to periodic sentence reductions handed to most prisoners in Indonesia.
JI was involved in the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people in August 2003.
In September 2004, a suicide car bomb outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta killed nine.
Suicide bombers attacked Bali again in October 2005, killing 23 people.
JI again attacks Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta in July 2009, killing eight people.
Two years ago, plans to grant the ageing Bashir early release on humanitarian grounds sparked a backlash in Indonesia and Australia -- dozens of Australians died in the Bali attacks.